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Ponyup...It's just so hard for intelligent people to believe such an overwhelming percentage of the population in an area could be such selfish slackers that have fallen for obama's false promises of legalized reparations.

Waukesha is one of the most Republican Counties in Wisconsin, and the teen suicide rate is 14-times higher there than in the City of Milwaukee. Guess we know where all the failure parents live (See, we can play this game too!).

I said the CITY OF MILWAUKEE, you just gave the data for Milwaukee County, which includes plenty of predominantly white, upper middle class suburbs such as Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, Glendale where teen suicides happen at a much more frequent rate. Of course, the white, middle-class people who consume local mainstream media don't like to hear about how badly they're effin' up, which is why the focus is always on inner-city crime.

Also seems to me that someone should be looking at the reporting practices just to make sure that someone didn't tamper with the results. Very hard to believe that over 99% of any populace would vote for one person.

I encourage everyone to read the actual Philly article. And it was kind of confusing for me, but there are 2 more pages to the story. The reporters physically tried to track down the handful of people registered as Republicans in that ward, but couldn't find anyone. There were a few folks whom the city had listed as Republicans, but who currently weren't.

My first reaction when reading the JSOnline blurb, was holy cow, zero votes? Could there be fraud? But after reading the entire source article, it sounds like if anything, there were some folks incorrectly listed as Republicans.

The reality is those wards literally consist of just a couple blocks, in very urban areas.

when that community is told to vote for someone who looks like them, what do uneducated people do, exactly as they are told. So now, when they learn that their taxes are going up, food and gas is more expensive because of this guy that looks like them, they can be mad only at the idiot that first made the comment!

Sadly these are some of the worst off areas that have shown the least amount of improvement over the last 4 years (yes I know these areas have been bad for longer than that, but this election was very much about the last 4 years). The question is, what would it take for these areas to change their votes, considering they keep voting the same way, but the situations never improve.

Sadly, Republicans are some of the worst off people when it comes to understanding the plight of anyone whose not old, white, and willfully ignorant. The question is, what will it take for Republicans to do some sincere self-examination and and recognize their own entitlement and arrogance (both of which are sadly evident in CRobby's "question").

So because I ask what it would take for people to make a change, that makes me entitled and arrogant? I've worked inner city before (Chicago, which I can tell you is much worse off than Milwaukee) and while I'll never fully understand the plight, how does continuing to vote for the same party do any good when there are not any results showing that by doing so you have voted to improve your situation?

It's pretty simple CRobby... I don't have to ask why southern states like Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama keep going red even though they're perpetually the most poverty stricken states in the union. Yet here you are wondering why inner-city people don't vote Republican. Evidently, you haven't drawn the connection between your party's FREQUENT tendency to scape goat and demonize inner-city people for the past 30 years and their loyalty to the Democrats. Can't say I'm surprised though... this is exactly why the GOP got its collective arse handed to them last week.

@Time2Vent: The fact that you apparently see nothing wrong with making broad bush statements about an entire race of people tells me you're a bigot who has no room to point fingers at anyone for being "morally bankrupt." Talk about white privilege! (That's right... I just used one of those fancy, college-y, liberal-y words... must make you just want to herd me into the shower and shove me into the oven, doesn't it? :D)

City. Really? Republicans don't understand? WE give more to charity than Democrats and Liberals do. We give more volunteer time as well. Liberals talk about feleing the pain and understanding teh plight, then want other people to solve the problems. That's why they support tax increases, on other people, and give less to charity.